For an intranet MW installation, it may (or may not [*]) be a nice feature to authenticate by their NT login, which is how they're known to pretty much all other systems in this company and which would save them remembering another password.
Is there anything for MediaWiki to either (a) pick up their NT logon automatically or (b) ask for it and then get it verified from whatever serves authentication? Has anyone gotten this working? I see various plans mentioned on mediawiki.org to use NTLM (which I'm not sure how to set up either). Though nothing about anyone getting NT logons for use as usernames.
[*] "may not" in that tying our wiki infrastructure to our Windows desktops strikes me as not the best idea if the company ever gets the notion to free us from Windows; I'd rather not give anyone another reason not to. OTOH, using their existing NT username and password would save me quite some effort.
- d.